Gertrude Stein- What the hell is she doing?!

[Brownlie]

Seriously, what is the deal?

Again Again and Again....

[rowens]

She's pointing at an abstract rose.

[billy]

Seriously, what is the deal?

Again Again and Again....

the deal?

[Brownlie]

Seriously, what is the deal?

Again Again and Again....

the deal?

What does her poetry mean? She repeats words over and over again. I could see how repeating the word again would invoke the meaning of the word, but what is she trying to do?

[billy]

i'm not well enough up on her to answer your question so i googled it
it seems she was classed as a master of repetition

wiki said;

and poems written in a highly idiosyncratic, playful, repetitive, and humorous style. Typical quotes are: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"; "Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle"; about her childhood home in Oakland, "There is no there there"; and "The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable."

even i have heard of the phrase "a rose is rose is a rose..." i know some find her to be a great poet, this includes many of her peers.